Paper-package.



F. H MOORE.

PAPER PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.5, 1911.

- Patented J an. 1, 1918.

VENTDR; KM 6W" 6? ATTV FREDERICK H. MOORE, OF MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER-PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 1, 1918.

Application filed April 5, 1917. Serial No. 159,908.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK H. Moons, a citizen of the United States, residing at Melrose, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented newand useful Improvements in Paper-Packages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a package composed of superimposed independent sheets of toilet or other. paper, adapted to be mounted on a supporting member on which the package is impaled, said member extending through the package from side to side, and the sheets being adapted to be detached successively from said member by an endwise pull, causing one end of the sheet to be torn through by the supporting member.

The invention has for its object to pro vide a package adapted to cooperate with a supporting member formed to support the package and prevent it from swaying or swinging edgewise, and constituting a wedge adapted to split one end of each sheet when the sheet is pulled lengthwise to detach it from the member.

The invention consists in the improvement hereinafter described and claimed.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a' package embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the pack age-supporting member.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

In the drawings, 12 represents a portion of the back of a casing adapted to contain a package of toilet paper, and 13 represents a package-supporting member which is a sheet-metal arm attached to the back 12, and made V-shaped in cross section so that it has a salient side and a reentrant side, the

salient side facing upwardly as indicated by Fig. 2, and acting as a wedge to split the upper end portions of the sheets of the pack 15, as hereinafter described.

In one end portion of the pack I form a V-shaped slot 17, Fig. 1, extending through the pack from front to rear, the salient side of the slot being relatively near one end of the pack so that one end portion of each sheet is adapted to be split by the arm 13.

The pack is adapted to be impaled upon the arm 13 and to depend therefrom, the main portion of the pack extending down wardly from said arm, and the rear side of the pack being supported by the back 12.

The described form of the slot 17 enables it to have a wide bearing on the supporting member 13, so that the package when engaged with said member is prevented from swaying or swinging edgewise. Each sheet of the package is enabled, by the described form of the slot, to be easily detached, the apex of the slot being nearer the upper end of the package than the ends of the slot, so that a light pull on the lower end of the sheet causes it to be torn through, or split by the member 13, between the slot apex and the upper end of the sheet, with relative ease.

I claim:

As an article of manufacture, a package of superimposed paper sheets provided near one end with a V-shaped slot extending through the pack from front to back, and adapted to receive a V-shaped supporting arm, the angle formed by the salient side of said slot being relatively near one end of the pack, so that one end portion of each sheet is adapted to be split by said arm.

In testimony whereof I. have aflixed my signature.

FREDERICK H. MOORE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

"' Washington, D. G. 

